Samuel Quotes
We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.
Any fool can tell the truth but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
There is some reason to believe there is greater safety in this branch of medicine from modest unassuming ignorance than from a meddling presumption which frequently accompanies a little learning.
I reckon being ill is one of the greatest pleasures of life provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better.
An ear for music is very different from a taste for music. I have no ear whatever I could not sing an air to save my life but I have the intensest delight in music and can detect good from bad.
Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing did certain persons die before they sing.
They who are the most persistent and work in the true spirit will invariably be the most successful.
The greatest pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you but he will make a fool of himself too.
All philosophies if you ride them home are nonsense but some are greater nonsense than others.
I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry that is prose - words in their best order poetry - the best words in their best order.
The world is like a mirror frown at it and it frowns at you. Smile and it smiles too.
The advantage of doing one's praising to oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.
He prayeth well who loveth well Both man and bird and beast. He prayeth best who loveth best All things both great and small For the dear God who loveth us He made and loveth all.
I did this night promise my wife never to go to bed without calling upon God upon my knees in prayer.
What is difficulty? Only a word indicating the degree of strength requisite for accomplishing particular objects a mere notice of the necessity for exertion ... a mere stimulus to men.
All progress is based upon the universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
Try as hard as we may for perfection the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.
No matter how ill we may be nor how low we may have fallen we should not change identity with any other person.
The foundations which we would dig about and find are within us like the Kingdom of Heaven rather than without.
One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten and to leave off fighting at once.
People care more about being thought to have good taste than about being thought either good clever or amiable.
Our latest moment is always our supreme moment. Five minutes delay in dinner now is more important than a great sorrow ten years gone.
Loyalty is still the same Whether it win or lose the game True as a dial to the sun Although it be not shined upon.
A virtue to be serviceable must like gold be alloyed with some commoner but more durable metal.
The wise only possess ideas the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
Too caustic? To hell with cost we'll make the picture anyhow. Every director bites the hand that lays the golden egg. We have all passed a lot of water since then.
Language is the armoury of the human mind and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
It does not take a majority to prevail ... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.
She was the most alone person he had ever met - so intent on staying forever breathtaking that she could never let any of life's glories take her own breath away.
